I like Data lots, but Picard is the character that I most admire, mainly for the wisdom which his character portrays. Picard mixed with a heavy dose of Data is my idea of a fine time.

After Picard and Data, Warf is without doubt my third favorite character. Picard represents wisdom, Data represents logic, and Warf represents the warrior spirit. All of them together form a nice pantheon of respectable trains and virtues that can be learned from and enjoyed thoroughly.

Worf and O'Brien. But that might just be because I've been watching a lot of Deep Space Nine lately.

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Same here. I love how both these characters develop over the TNG series and even futher in DS9. Mind you I often want to smack Worf upside the head (a wee bit tricky, as I'm 5'2") whenever he's giving Alexander a hard time.

As the lead character, Picard is my favorite, followed by Data then Worf and Riker. Least favorite regular was Wesley because of how he was written, while I like the actor. In the middle with a dollop of "meh" are Beverly, Geordi, Troi, and Yar.

As for guest characters, Q hands down is the best, followed by Gowron and Tomalak.

Picard had the flaw, IMO, of being too ethical (which I guess is one strength Sisko had over him), but Picard IMO was easily the wisest out of all the five captains. He was also very intuitive, and most of the time sussed out the exact cause of a problem.